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Comeback
I’m picturing one of them reclined in his chair,and the other one sitting on the couchOne with his slippered feet up, and a beerOne with a glass of pop, and a comfortable slouch

Both men wear their casual pants and golf shirts,and both have intentionally short, completely gray hairThere’s a Jays game on, in the top of the eighth,and a bowl of peanuts, that both of them share

I can hear their commentary after a pivotal playSharp criticism of the base-runner’s choicesKnowledgeable experience that fills their words,And a youthful exuberance that joins their voices

The subtle jabs of friends are parlayed back and forthEach ready for a comeback, as the other one slyly talks“What could an old curler possibly know about baseball”“You must’ve taken too many blows whenever you’d box”

The spirited rant transitions naturally during a commercial,away from the second baseman and his prolonged slumpIt turns seamlessly back to differing opinions of Trudeau,
and a sarcastically disdain-filled consensus on Trump

You would never know that they were fairly new friendswith the familiarity and the intensity of all they discussYou wouldn’t suspect that they had met in their eightiesThat they’d only met in this last year, and because of us

Their furrowed brows ease back into a playful twinkleas their jostling conversation becomes their laughterWith a one-run deficit, in the bottom of the eighth,they’ll find plenty of time for their wisdom, after

I see your father, reaching for the last of the peanuts,then he pauses, and passes them to my dad insteadI see them sit up straight, suddenly, together in unison,as a loud two-run homer puts their Jays ahead

I think about them often, when I watch with youWhatever the sport, and whatever the seasonLife has a way of putting good people togetherAnd we are good people, for an obvious reason